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MARCH 6, 2015

Let me take you back just 10 years ago to 2005 in Silicon Valley where I returned after 11 years of living in Europe. I was out to raise my first seed money in my second startup of $500,000. Neither did Y Combinator, 500 Startups, TechStars, Amplify, Mucker and countless others. Startup Lessons'

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Rob Freelen is Silicon Valley Bank's Los Angeles Market Manager, where he leads a team of bankers working with a thriving team of early-stage technology companies. Since joining SVB in 2005, Rob has led debt transactions for more than 100 public and private companies. He earned a B.A.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2013

I first met Ethan in 2005. He had an idea for a startup that would help consumers better book service jobs and would take on Service Magic, which he believed had a business model that could be disrupted. In the same year they won Business Insider’s Startup competition. The company was called Red Beacon. Nice sweep!

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JUNE 28, 2011

million in team costs to code, launch, manage, market & sell our software. These two trends had a major impact on the computing industry from 2000-2005 but the effects weren’t yet felt by the VC industry. That makes both of these amazing companies great channels for startups. Enter Amazon.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2018

I have been fortunate to have a team under me, which had been personally consuming the cloud in enterprise IT, and we always had a mix of cloud and data center resources. I have been lucky to have been around both parts of corporate IT and application development teams, and on the infrastructure side. Tim O'Neal: Absolutely.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2012

Steve Jillings has a long track record of running successful startups in Southern California, ranging from such companies as FrontBridge Technologies (sold to Microsoft in 2005 for over $200M) and Vantage Media (acquired in 2007). You found the team behind TeleSign, and have helped bring together a team to scale out the business.

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JULY 24, 2012

I wrote a blog post on how to work with lawyers at a startup nearly two-and-a-half years ago. If you don’t have much experience in working with law firms at a startup it’s a good primer. In that post I talked about how to select a law-firm for a startup. Startup-focused. It was very widely read.

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JUNE 9, 2010

Continuing my series of posts that I’ve been collecting that live at the intersection of Startups and being a Startup CTO : Startup CTO Top 30 Posts for April 16 Great Startup Posts from March here are the top posts from May 2010. Dan McKinley and Wil Stuckey from the Etsy Curation team here. The Curation Team.

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JULY 7, 2010

A similar phenomenon occurs in the startup world, without the drugs or drama endemic in the music industry. It is not uncommon for successful entrepreneurs to work as a team, take some time off for a victory lap or two and then “get the band back together” in order to build upon their prior successes. Alma mater, CallWave: 2005 IPO.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2016

I thought then that the best way to value a start-up is to give value to those elements of progress by the entrepreneur or team that reduce risk of success. For example, in Silicon Valley, a “big data” startup might competitively call for a $1.5

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JULY 21, 2011

5) When I interviewed people at my past startups, I rejected them if they asked me about our dental plan, as true entrepreneurs don’t care about such pedestrian benefits. 4) What lessons from launching the Lincoln Group in Baghdad in 2005 are transferable to today’s LA startup scene? We brought in 10 – 20 people in each class.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

I was reading Danielle Morrill’s blog post today on whether one’s “ Startup Burn Rate is Normal. I love how transparently Danielle lives her startup (& encourages other to join in) because it provides much needed transparency to other startups. ” I highly recommend reading it.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2011

We then spoke about startups. Again, Seth: “One of the things I noticed when I looked around at startups is that often the founding teams hired people just like themselves. Startups shouldn’t be like this. Startups shouldn’t be like this. You need a diverse set of skills on your team.&#.

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DECEMBER 21, 2017

We talked with Richard about NordicEye's $30M fund, its interests in Los Angeles, and why a Nordic venture capital firm has its eyes on Southern California's technology startups. He's based in Switzerland and Copenhagen, and he's also a celebrity in the startup world and business world in Europe. They are the two senior partners.

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AUGUST 22, 2018

They sat down and told us a bit about whyafter a string of successful companieswhy they've gotten back into the startup game, and why they've decided to tackle the whole area of getting you into your office. What drove you to start new company and get back into the startup game? James Segil: As a team, we just like working together.

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APRIL 13, 2011

In 2004 / 2005 I was starting to get intrigued with user-generated content. This time frame – 2005/2006 – web 2.0 And that’s very different than a firm where you have an IT team and a Clean Tech Team and a Bio Team or an early stage team and a late stage team.”. Is that when it became big?

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OCTOBER 14, 2015

When things are hard the best leaders have teams that will rally around them. We have an entire generation of startup founders who don’t have muscle memory from getting their burn rates back into shape from 2008/09 or 2001-2005. It’s easy to love the boss when everything is going well. Others will follow.

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APRIL 5, 2010

In 2005 he was graduated and took a job in South Carolina working for technology company while he started his own web design company on the side. That is the reason I am so supportive of the Startup Visa movement that has been so successfully championed by Brad Feld, Dave McClure, Eric Ries, Shervin Pishevar and many others.

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JUNE 6, 2011

Although Los Angeles has become a hub for the high tech startup world, Surprisingly, one of the things which hasn't happened in the Los Angeles area is any huge, successful venture acceleration programs. Dan Dato: The quickest way to describe it is it's a Techstars-like, YCombinator-like startup accelerator. What is Upstart.la?

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OCTOBER 31, 2011

Richard’s Startup Tips. He used this term so often that it eventually became the title of his 2005 book on business advice. He also knows that once a proposal is launched, real-world data will allow him and his team to make unanticipated, incremental changes which will positively influence the project’s ultimate outcome.

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JANUARY 4, 2013

We caught up with Blair to learn more about his new startup, and why he thinks we need Frequency. Blair Harrison: I sold iFilm to Viacom at the end of 2005, and got out of there at the beginning of 2008. Harrison created one of the Internet's first video search sites, FastTV, and also ran IFILM, which he sold to Viacom in 2006.

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JUNE 13, 2019

We caught up with Pluto TV's co-founder and Chief Growth Officer, Ilya Pozin , to hear about how the company started, and its path to acquisitionas well as to get some tips on startup success. Ilya also founded Coplex, a startup development studio. We built a rock star team. Why it is you were successful, where they weren't?

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MARCH 17, 2010

By Jim Flowers A few months ago, Marty invited me to comment on business incubation and what a startup company ought to expect from an incubator. At VT KnowledgeWorks we screen prospective clients for their Market opportunity, for the Magic that they offer to their prospective customers, and for the Moxie displayed by the start-up team.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

The same kind of tasks that a startup team has. He turned me down for a job in 2005. I met for coffee with one of my favorite “startup advisors” in LA. I like to meet people like this because in an hour I get catch up on everything going on in the startup community. He has a startup. Operations.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

As I’ve highlighted I believe we’re in a unique period similar to 2005-08 where the biggest tech firms of Silicon Valley (and some media companies) are scooping up small software companies as “talent acquisitions&# versus accretive revenue / profit generators. This is actually the norm. the diversity problem.

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JANUARY 7, 2013

Like most powerful business principles, Kerri's secret for building and maintaining a healthy and innovative corporate culture is no secret - instill a humble conviction in your team. Over the course of 2004 and 2005, we actually merged Be Free and Commission Junction together. . Arrogant Greg's Quick Demise. Share and Enjoy.

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JUNE 27, 2011

Well, you shouldn't have to be -- or at least, that's the premise behind Payoff.com (www.payoff.com), a new startup launching today. Scott Saunders: I spent nearly my entire career on the investment side, and in 2005 switched over to the entrepreneurial side of the world. In 2009, I teamed up with my partner, co-founder Eden Warner.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2018

San Diego-based uCast Global (www.ucastglobal.com), backed by Gary Winnick, is looking to tackle that entire area of content distribution, and is led by startup veteran Dr. Kanaan Jemili. In 2004 and 2005, I was at DivX in San Diego, and I was head of product there. We caught up with Kanaan to learn more about uCast Global.

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APRIL 5, 2017

What's the biggest lesson you've learned so far taking this from startup to $100M? Just one bad person on a team is going to make people unproductive, and we couldn't afford to do that. Given the attraction of stock options at startups to employees and quick exits and IPOs, how do you recruit and keep employees?

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JULY 16, 2010

Quinn Curtis: We were around since 2005, we were incorporated and funded in 2006. With any startup, that's always something you think about. How big was the team in San Diego? Tags: startup merger acquisition webroot brightcloud security software content. Quinn, thanks for the time. Quinn Curtis: That's a great question.

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APRIL 25, 2011

We spoke with Scott about GOGII and textPlus, the shifting mobile market, and also what lessons he's applied to his new startup. Around 2005, those of us at JAMDAT thought Apple would disrupt the application space, so we approached Apple. It's the quality of the team. What's the story behind GOGII?

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

A few weeks ago, Beverly Hills-based Meteor Games , the latest startup from the founders of NeoPets, announced that it had hired Zac Brandenberg as its CEO. They created Neopets, brought it to the US, helped it grow, and eventually sold it to Viacom in 2005. Adam and Donna had founded a virtual world website in 1999 called Neopets.

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JANUARY 15, 2009

Our startup interview this morning is with Josh Stomel , founder of ResumeBucket (www.resumebucket.com), a new web site that is focused on helping people share their resumes with the world. Stomel--who is bootstrapping the startup from his recruiting firm, NeoHire--explained the site to us. What's the idea behind the site?

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JUNE 2, 2011

Central Desktop was founded in 2005 to provide an easy-to-use, SaaS collaboration solution to the SMB market. Teams within large, small, medium sized companies need collaboration tools that are easy to use, fast to setup and accessible from anywhere and everywhere." Fast forward twenty years, it’s still difficult.

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JULY 20, 2015

The company recently raised $70M in funding to further expand its app and team, from such impressive investors as Sequoia, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Index Ventures. Farhad Mohit: As you know, Bizrate spawned Shopzilla, which took us from 2000 to 2005. It was a very ambitious idea, and we spent a good time around it.

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JULY 20, 2015

The company recently raised $70M in funding to further expand its app and team, from such impressive investors as Sequoia, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Index Ventures. Farhad Mohit: As you know, Bizrate spawned Shopzilla, which took us from 2000 to 2005. It was a very ambitious idea, and we spent a good time around it.

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JULY 20, 2015

Santa Barbara has become a high-tech startup mecca, rivaling cities many times its size. The latest evidence of the city’s dynamic startup ecosystem is the recent announcement by Citrix to investment significant resources in the Santa Barbara Innovator’s Program. From Lynda.com ’s recent $1.5

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